Faye Hipsman
Faye Hipsman was a Policy Analyst and California Program Coordinator with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at MPI. She held various positions at MPI from 2011 to 2017, first based in Washington, DC and later in San Francisco. Her areas of expertise include immigration enforcement and border security, state and local immigration policies, and immigration and politics.
She has published more than 50 reports, articles, and policy briefs on a wide range of immigration topics. In 2016, she became an Affiliated Scholar with University of California-Hastings College of the Law.
Ms. Hipsman previously worked at the Brookings Institution, as a paralegal at an immigration and nationality law firm in Boston, and for several immigrant advocacy and civil-rights organizations in El Paso, Texas and Oberlin, Ohio. She earned a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and holds a BA in Latin American studies with minors in economics and history from Oberlin College.
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Alabama Settlement Marks Near End of a Chapter in State Immigration Enforcement Activism
Alabama's settlement gutting HB 56 marked the end of a period of state omnibus laws targeting unauthorized immigration.
As Immigration Reform Stalls in Congress, Activists Take a Page from the Civil-Rights Movement
Stalled immigration reform sparked a 2013 shift to civil disobedience, with 200 activists and eight members of Congress arrested near the Capitol in a single day.
State Access to Federal Immigration Data Stirs New Controversy in Debate over Voting Rights
Iowa joined Florida and Colorado in using a federal benefits tool for voter purges, even as data revealed very few noncitizen voters.
Now that the Senate Has Passed Landmark Immigration Legislation, All Eyes Are on the House
Republican divisions in the U.S. House of Representatives threatened to stall the most sweeping overhaul since 1965.
As Senate Debates Immigration Reform, CBO and New Studies Examine Effects of Immigration on Nation's Fiscal Health
The Congressional Budget Office projected immigration reform would reduce the federal deficit by $175 billion over ten years.
As Congress Tackles Immigration Legislation, State Lawmakers Retreat from Strict Measures
Few predicted that U.S. states racing to restrict immigration in 2011 would, by 2013, be doubling driver's license access for unauthorized immigrants and enacting tuition parity.
Sweeping Senate Bill Sets the Stage for Fundamental Overhaul of U.S. Immigration System
While most public attention has focused on the prospect legalization for millions of immigrants, S. 744's deeper ambition was to shift U.S. immigration to labor market-driven admissions.
Immigration in the United States: New Economic, Social, Political Landscapes with Legislative Reform on the Horizon
Immigration has been critical for the United States across its history, with large-scale arrivals coming during just four peak periods.
Even as enforcement spending reached nearly $18 billion in FY 2012, the United States stood on the threshold of its most significant immigration overhaul since 1990.
Sequester Affects Immigration Enforcement — and Invites Attention to Detention Policy
When the U.S. sequester forced the release of 2,228 immigration detainees, the political fallout spotlighted the high cost and contested logic of U.S. immigration detention.
Immigration Reform Returns to Center Stage of U.S. Politics
For the first time since 2007, bipartisan U.S. immigration reform proposals put legalization for unauthorized immigrants on the table.